Mary Beard Quotes
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
Mary Beard
Quotes to Explore
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
Laura Dern
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand
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'Plutona' is the story of five kids who find the body of the world's greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It's about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.
Jeff Lemire
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What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
Marianne Williamson
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
Salman Khan
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I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Jean M. Auel
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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
Mary Beard
